Project Name | Start Date | End Date |
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2TBI | 2017 | - |
- Description
- 2wards a Transnational Biographical Infrastructure
2TBI has three main goals:
- Enriching and linking data on the life courses of transnationally mobile persons, starting out from a sample of Dutch social reformers in the period 1840-1914 and their participation in international congresses;
- Integrating (meta-)data on international organisations in the period 1914-1940, exploring the involvement of Dutch(wo)men;
- Feasibility study for the enlargement of the CLARIAH-person-entity portal towards the study of transnational cultural mobility in Europe and beyond.
The research pilot tests infrastructural improvements of Clariah components (in particular WP2), results in scientific output (one article on the infrastructural component and one on connections across borders), and advances the community of researchers into transnational biographies.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Universiteit Maastricht CLARIAH (Financier) - Persons
Dr. N. Randeraad
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ACAD - Automatic Coherence Analysis of Dutch | 2017 | - |
- Description
- The goal of the present proposal is to develop an environment in which computationally naive discourse analysts can carry out an automatic analysis of causal coherence in discourse.
The project specifically aims at developing a linguists-oriented search interface for which the case of causal coherence serves as a point-of-proof.
The research question of the project is: To what extent do the results of causal coherence analysis in different genres in terms of subjectivity based on small-scale studies hold for large datasets?
The project will make use of several Clariah components. A linguist-oriented web interface will be added to CorpusStudio, that does not immediately force the researcher to write searches in a programming language but will allow him/her to focus on the syntactic definition of the searches.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen CLARIAH (Financier) - Persons
Prof.dr. W. Spooren
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CoDoSiS - Combining Data on slavery in Surinam | 2017 | - |
- Description
- The project ‘Combining Data on slavery in Surinam’ (CoDoSiS) aims to develop a strategy to convert existing datasets on Surinam slavery into Linked Data by using the CLARIAH wp4-tool QBer and to combine them into one database network with relevant connections using the CLARIN-tool TICCL.
In the past twenty-five years researchers have constructed a number of databases on different aspects of colonial Suriname. Most of these databases are constructed for one specific purpose. They are stand-alone databases which are rarely compatible which each other and which are only to a limited available to researchers. Although most of these sources have a focus on the same period, roughly the last forty years of slavery in Suriname (1825-1863), this lack of compatibility and availability severely restricts their use for research into the social and economic history of slavery in Suriname.
Within CoDoSis we want to combine these databases into a meaningful network, by converting them into the same Linked Data format and by creating relevant connections. Furthermore, we want to sync them with the database of the so-called slave registers of Surinam, the core archival source on Surinam slavery during the period 1830-1863, in which all individual enslaved persons and slave owners are mentioned. This pilot database is currently under development with the support of CLARIAH seed money.
In a later stage, we want to research which new datasets can be found using Linked Data on, for example, local geology, weather conditions and disease environment in Suriname in the research period 1830 to 1863. The result of CoDoSiS will be a database network which forms a foundation on which an demographic database of Surinam can be build, using a life course approach.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen CLARIAH (Financier) - Persons
Dr. C. van Galen
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CrossEWT - Cross-Medial Analysis of WW2 Eyewitness Testimonies | 2017 | - |
- Description
- Although eyewitnesses have become ever more prominent in the media, there is no systematic research about which topics are actually being addressed in their accounts. Such knowledge could enhance our understanding of the different functions and values attributed to testimonies.
This project aims for a cross-medial and diachronic content analysis of eyewitness testimonies (EWTs) in newspapers, on radio and television, and in oral history interviews in the Netherlands since 1945, using a thematic thesaurus (WW2 thesaurus, NOB). This entails the integration of the OHT oral history collection of DANS in AVResearcher.
Besides an upgraded tool for cross-medial text analysis, the project will thus offer a use case for applying different strategies for semi-automatic text extraction, as well as for analysing an OH collection in a digital research environment. Therewith, it hopes to contribute to the further emancipation of oral history as historical source, also in the field of digital humanities.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
CLARIN Open Universiteit CLARIAH (Financier) - Persons
Dr. S.M. Hogervorst
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DB:CCC - Diamonds in Borneo: Commodities as Concepts in Context | 2017 | - |
- Description
- For comparative research on globalization, understood as the intensified circulation of people, commodities and ideas historians currently study texts ‘manually’ deriving lists of concepts, such as places, products, and labour types as well as related characteristics explaining changes in these concepts.
To do this more efficiently we want to transpose our existing lists of concepts to vocabularies and use those to derive structured information from texts like travelogues, newspapers, trade papers etc. For this particular project we want to improve our concept lists on diamonds,using existing linked data and adding data from the Geillustreerde encyclopaedie der diamantnijverheid.
Based on a selection of texts from Delpher and with help of NLP tools like Entity recognition, classification & linking and the Ontotagger we hope to detect the mining, manufacturing and trading places and people in Borneo up until now a blind spot in our knowledge about the global diamond commodity chain.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
International Institute for Social History (IISH) - Persons
Dr. K. Hofmeester
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DReAM - Debate Research Across Media | 2017 | - |
- Description
- In this research pilot, historians will test and extend CLARIAH’s recipe AVResearcherXL.
We will study the role of historical public debates on drugs and regulation (1945-1990) in newspapers, on radio and television. These debates are shifting in time and often fragmented since drugs (e.g. heroin, amphetamines and cannabis) move between medical, criminal and recreational spheres.
We study the historically dynamic relation between governmental drug regulation and public discourse. To do that, we aim to enable our research strategy, which is to trace and understand public debates by alternating between distant reading and close reading, across textual and AV-datasets.
AVResearcherXL is primarily developed as a distant reading tool with a focus on media representation research. By enriching the AVResearcherXL recipe with additional CLARIAH components we will make it suitable for alternating cross-media forms of distant and close reading. This will significantly improve the employability of AVRearcherXL for humanities researchers.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Universiteit Utrecht - Persons
prof. dr. A.H.L.M. Pieters
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HHuCap - The History of Human Capital | 2017 | - |
- Description
- Current historical studies of career mobility often focus on linkage of personal records such as baptism records. More qualitative sources, such as biographies contain vital information as well, but are labour intensive to process.
We propose a combination of Robust Semantic Parsing and Linked Data conversion tools to automatically derive career patterns from 35,000 biographies in the Biography Portal in the period 1815-1940.
Substantively, we answer the question what career patterns looked like and changed over the long Nineteenth century. Methodologically, we evaluate to what extent current CLARIAH tools are up to automate this process. We will progress the semantic parsing tools by improving the linguistic expression set related to HISCO, adding an OCR cleaning step to the pipeline and experimenting with alternative CLARIAH tools for Dutch.
This will result in a detailed report on the performance of CLARIAH tools on this data.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
International Institute for Social History (IISH) - Persons
Dr. R.L. Zijdeman
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HUMIGEC - Human capital, immigration and the early modern Dutch economy | 2017 | - |
- Description
- In this pilot we will be using CLARIAH components from WP2 and WP4 to link and systematically analyse a variety of historical datasets allowing us to reconstruct the careers of migrant and native workers active in the eighteenth century Dutch maritime labour market.
Focusing on this historical case study, we will investigate a current policy issue: the economic contribution of migrant workers on a recipient economy.
Our approach to uncover the link between migration and economic development centres on two aspects of what is referred to as job mobility: promotion and job switching.
By identifying those individuals that during their career experienced promotion and/or job switching we seek to lay bare the extent to which human capital levels of migrants and native workers differed, and what opportunities for social advancement were available in the eighteenth century Dutch labour market.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands - Persons
dr. J. van Lottum
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LinkSyr - Linking Syriac Data | 2017 | - |
- Description
- How do the Biblical heritage and Hellenistic culture interact in the oldest documents of Syriac Christianity?
At the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC ) we will compare the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Syriac translation (the Peshitta) with the Syriac Book of the Laws of the Countries (ca. 200 AD) using linguistic data processing, especially topic modelling.
Processing of the Hebrew Bible has been made possible by the CLARIAH component SHEBANQ. In this project we will add Syriac texts to the procedure.
The material is digitally available, but requires further preparation to be delivered in research-ready shape. We will expose the analysed Syriac texts as Linked Open Data via syriac.ancient-data.org. In passing, we shall give the same treatment to relevant Hebrew material from SHEBANQ.
This is the second step in developing ancient-data.org as a data provider for research into the Semitic foundational texts from the Ancient Near East, one of the cradles of Western civilization.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
VU Faculty of Theology - Persons
Prof. dr. W.T. Peursen
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M&M: Me and Myself | 2017 | - |
- Description
- This research wants to explore a specific gradual change within Dutch documentary filmmaking: it wants to trace a transformation from the traditional objective documentary as fair and fact minded genre towards one with an appreciation for a more personal and subjective style.
But, how to trace the emergence of a genre before it is a well constituted and recognized as such?
This proposal aims to address the challenges of doing historical research in large audiovisual collections by making use of a video annotation tool.
Additionally, this research aims to use contextual sources, like the program guides available in the CoMeRDa tool, to gain more insights. It will offer a method of reconstructing the development of a genre based on analysing oral and visual cues related to a set of genre conventions: a common theme or subject matter, manner of presentation and associated emotions.
- Disciplines
- History
- Institutions
Rijks Universiteit Groningen - Persons
dr. S.I. Aasman
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